This plasmoid is a controller and a visualizer of informations about the songs for amarok 2.0.
It is quite, let's say, advanced compared with the "Now Playing" plasmoid. I have Kirocker as a model, so it works well even on a thin panel.
Currently it shows basilar info about the song, the cover image, the rating and other minor things, but I plan to add some other Things in the future.
Anyway if you have some feature request, please tell me!

Hope you enjoy it!

Changelog:

0.8.1
-fixed licensing issues
-compiles with kde < 4.4 too

0.8
-added a lyrics extender item
-fixed a bug that with qt 4.6 could make playwolf to show nothing
-now the info are hidden when stop is pressed
-refactor of some code with a smoother scroll animation

0.7.3
-fixed the multiplication of the extender items.

0.7.2
-got rid of the annoying plasma status dialog when downloading some covers
-fixed a plasma crash when closing it with more than one PlayWolf
-fixed a typo: Information instead of Informations
-fixed a plasma crash when closing PlayWolf
-better performance when moving or resizing PlayWolf

0.7.1
-added a spacing betwenn the meter and the buttons in planar formfactor
-fixed high cpu usage whith a big playlist
-better implementation to launch amarok
-the misc extender show the next three songs
-the wheel:
on the meter seeks in the song,
on the cover changes the volume,
on the info changes song

0.7
-added an option to change the path to the amarok executable
-added the possibility to hide the infos when in horizontal panel
-splitted the extender in two items:
-one with the infos,
-one with misc things
-fixed the bad positioning of the cover
-fixed the Soprano compilation issue

0.5
-the cover can be hidden once again
-the meter and the buttons resize themselves with the applet
-added an option to change the font
-minor things

0.4
-fixed many bugs
-some little improvements in the graphic

0.3.2
-shows a generic cover for lastfm and one when it is not set
-workaround to make it work with different styles and not only with Oxygen

0.3.1
-fixed some bugs
-works again with kde 4.1

0.3
-Added support for scrolling labels besides resizing the font.
-Possibility to, if needed, resize the font till a minimum size and then scroll the labels.
-Better different formfactor support.
-Added the cover image in the vertical panel too.
-Added a label on the meter that tells the percentage.
-Now the button to open Amarok works always.

0.2
-Added a configuration dialog
-Added the image of the cover of the album
-Added a button to open amarok
-Now you can surf the song clicking on the meter or using the mouse wheel
-Little things

0.1.1
-Resize the font if the label is truncated
-Center the labels in the available space
-Clears the labels if amarok is stopped

0.1 - Initial version
-Basic things: control amarok and display info
-Basic support for different formfactors

I swear someone @ OpenSUSE designed that :D

Re: Re: Very nice!

thanks for the feedback! the color of the meter is set by the plasma theme, and if you don't like the meter color of the theme you use you can change it via the "details of the desktop theme" module in systemsettings

Plasmas crashes on Fedora 10

Hi,
Just compiles the plasmoid, and whenever i try to add it to desktop, plasma crashes and reload.
Havent done any backtracing yet (damned work), but for sake of knowing it is a fedora 10, kde 4.1.3, all the rest standar.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Plasmas crashes on Fedora 10

I think I found, but before creating a new tar i want to be sure.
Could you open "playwolf.cpp" and in the lines 92, 107 and 124 change "constraints == 127" into "constraints == 63" and tell me if it works?

Re: Re: Crashes on OpenSUSE 11.0

Thanks for your answer. I've just updated my system (but mainly only KDE4 libs and apps).
playwolf is still the same version (build 17.Dec.08) Is this the current version or do I have to wait some days until the rpm is updated?

Anyway here is the error message when I want to add the plasmoid to the desktop.

How do you like Plasma 5? The best KDE Desktop ever. Definitely a nice improvement. Not decided yet. Haven't tried it yet. I do not like some of the changes. KDE is taking the wrong way. I am still sticking with KDE 3.5. I have no opinion, but wanted to vote anyway.

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